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From: frank@cis.ohio-state.edu (Frank Adelstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: pop-ups and text not appearing
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Date: 29 Jun 91 22:50:11 GMT
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I want to have a little popup window with a message
telling the user to wait a second.  So, I create a transient 
application shell (with override redirect), and have a form
widget with a label widget in it.  The problem is that the text
does not appear until I am about to destroy it (i.e. 
if I comment out the call to destroy it, I will see the text,
otherwise I'll only see a blank rectangle).  I'd guess that
it doesn't refresh until it gets back to XtMainLoop().

Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem is and how I 
could get the text to show up immediately?  I realize
that I could use a dialog widget, but (on general principles)
I'd like to get this working first.

Thanks for any information.

--Frank Adelstein
  frank@cis.ohio-state.edu